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The individual and social drivers of primate innovation

2016-07-11

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How does nonhuman primate innovation compare to our own? Many primates innovate, for example to get otherwise inaccessible food or to increase their social standing, and nonhuman primate innovation can be broken into three component steps. It begins with the initial invention, which is then transmitted to other members of the inventor’s group, and is then adopted by other individuals and maintained within the soci...

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Literature Corpus work: d280ab95-c60f-5b21-9b75-da34e959045e
DOI: 10.7287/peerj.preprints.2276v1

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